Calhoun has been writing and performing original music since 1973. Phoenix Envy is his 5th album, including two released on the Flying Fish label in the mid 80s, and Hope, Waterbug's first release (1993).

"Phoenix Envy shows Calhoun's unique songs at their naked best. They are fine, tough, poems set to music. Except for one song (with Andrew Bird on violin), this is a solo voice and guitar recording. Dancing guitar figures underpin the often dark, dense lyrics, ever reminding us that Calhoun is not a pessimist, but a lusty realist. It is guitar playing that mines the rich veins of Anglo-Celtic ballad tradition with deft, graceful nods to an obvious mentor, Martin Carthy. Calhoun is one of the very few in the current crop of singer-songwriters who knows or cares enough of this rich, subtly powerful tradition. Like those great songs, Calhoun's are much more than well-told stories; they both illuminate and conceal some of life's greatest mysteries." - Dwight Thurston, WWUH

"I have always placed Andrew's songs among the most uplifting music I know. He writes in the tradition of songwriters like Pierce Pettis and Leonard Cohen and poets like Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay whose sense of humor is underrated because their suffering and faith are so great. The characters in Andrew's songs wrestle in the dark and, no, they they don't always win. But their ongoing struggles reveal all that is most noble in them-and us. "You Better Get a Lawyer," "Balls," and "Glad Old Man" show his brilliant lighter side as he deals with divorce, machismo, and aging; "If" (a duet with Kat Eggleston) and "She's Like The Autumn" are passionate love lyrics; "Survivor" and "Veteran" are the album's centerpieces-soul scorching, impressionistic journeys to the other side of pain." - Hugh Blumenfeld

Phoenix Envy
CD $15.00 ON SALE AGAIN SEPTEMEBER 8, 2003

1. Time
2. Tunnel Vision
3. Sparrow
4. Folksingers Are Boring
5. No Secret Castle
6. Here Comes That Lady Again
7. Never Enough
8. It's Not You That I'm Leaving
9. Journey
10. Trenches
11. Lonesome
12. Freedom Road
13. Paul Scott Rap
14. The Model
15. At the Bar
16. Sheila
17. Narnia Song
18. O My Son
19. While Jesus Was Waiting to Die
20. Jack and Jill
21. When My Time Comes

Hope
CD $15.00 ON SALE AGAIN SEPTEMEBER 8, 2003

1. Getaway
2. I Love You All the Time
3. Glad Old Man
4. The Swimmer
5. Veteran
6. You Better Get a Lawyer
7. Balls
8. Scrapbook
9. Long Legged Lover
10. She's Like the Autumn
11. If
12. Survivor
13. Recall